The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulat… - Alexey Brodovitch
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulat…
- Alexey Brodovitch
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will com… - Alexey Brodovitch
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will com…
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for m… - Alexey Brodovitch
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for m…
If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter. - Alexey Brodovitch
If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture o… - Alexey Brodovitch
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture o…
It is the end result that counts. - Alexey Brodovitch
It is the end result that counts.
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence be… - Alexey Brodovitch
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence be…
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at se… - Alexey Brodovitch
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at se…
If you know yourself, you are doomed. - Alexey Brodovitch
If you know yourself, you are doomed.
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